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The Papers: 'Pressure piles on Andrew' and 'Jesse Jackson dies at 84'

The Financial Times remembers Jesse Jackson as the leader whose advocacy spanned the death of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 to the election of Barack Obama in 2008 - featuring an image of the late US civil rights leader taking part in a rally in Washington in 1992. The …

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'He did it for us': US soldier recalls Jesse Jackson's efforts to free him and two other POWs

"It was a frenetic three of four days," Blagojevich added. "Milosovic originally offered to let him take one or two of the soldiers back. Jackson was steadfast. He said we're not going to just take one or two. We take either all of them or none of them

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I invested £12,000 in Brewdog - I think I've lost it all

What many of those small investors may not have realised was that Brewdog was also looking for institutional sources of finance - and that affected the value of their own shares

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The 61-year-old Glaswegian whose ice rink moonwalk went viral

Did you hear about the 61-year-old from Glasgow who's been captured moonwalking down the curling rink at the Winter Olympics? Mark Callan shakes his head and laughs. It's been quite a week or so for the Scot, who has been plastered all over various social media platforms in the course …

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Lindsey Vonn 'yet to stand' but returns home to US

Lindsey Vonn has returned to the United States after four operations on the broken leg she sustained at the Winter Olympics - but has yet to stand up nine days after the crash. The American great - who was racing just nine days after rupturing ligaments in her left knee …

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GB curlers on brink of early exit after Canada defeat

Team GB's Winter Olympics curling medal hopes are now in serious jeopardy after Bruce Mouat's world champions were beaten 9-5 by Canada in Cortina. Arriving in Italy as gold-medal favourites, the British quartet have lost four of their eight matches in a round-robin stage full of maybes and might have …

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Tories call for rethink of Parliament revamp

"The Green Party's view on restoration works is clear: the priority must be to get the repairs done as quickly, safely, and cost-effectively as possible, with proper regard for the public purse and fair consideration of the working conditions of everyone who keeps Parliament running

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Illegal skin lightening cream being sold in UK butchers, watchdog warns

"I definitely saw a difference in my skin complexion and felt like I needed to keep up with it, because if I stopped, I would revert back to my original skin complexion," he said

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Reform plans to keep UK's budget watchdog

While he will criticise the Bank for "taking its eye off the ball on inflation" and promise to strip it of "distractions" such as lowering carbon emissions, he will argue it is still a force for stability

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US says it 'supports' UK Chagos Islands deal

It will come as a relief for the UK government after rapid changes in the position of US President Donald Trump on the deal, going from calling it an "act of great stupidity" to saying the deal was the "best" the prime minister could make

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